Who is Alexander Brome
Alexander Brome (1620 – 30 June 1666) was an English poet.Life
Brome was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament. In 1661, following the Restoration, he published Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a series of political songs; ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations. Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won him the title of the English Anacreon in Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum.Brome published a translation of Horace by himself and others in 1666, and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers ...
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- The Resolve
Tell me not of a face that's fair,
Nor lip and cheek that's red,
Nor of the tresses of her hair,
Nor curls in order laid,...
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Tpe_scv: uw-river falls students have picked: foster cemetery- upland joe pye (lots), alexander - giant blue hyssop, riverbank and virginia ryes and el brome, bbh - rough blazing star and leadplant. next, the students will learn how to clean the seed.Donaldh11469395: “ i have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year. [ the mad lover, l. i ]” alexander brome [ 1620- 1666 ]
Donaldh11469395: “ something there is moves me to love, and i do know i love, but know not how, nor why. [ love’s without reason, v ]” alexander brome [ 1620- 1666 ]
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